Born in 1948, I studied Nutrition at the Queen Elizabeth College (now Kings College), London University. In my final year as an undergraduate my future mentor Derek Miller was approached by John Brotherhood to analyze food intake data that he had collected on personnel overwintering at Halley Bay in the British Antarctic, and from this serendipitous contact, a PhD project was developed to investigate food intake, energy expenditure and energy balance in personnel working in Antarctica. Later, while working in the Eric Jéquier's group in Lausanne I collaborated on a number of projects with Nestlé's Nutrition and Stable Isotope research units, and I later joined Nestlé Research to develop human clinical trials in carbohydrate and energy metabolism. Beside basic research in this area I have also been involved in diverse collaborations such as protein turnover in microgravity and head-down tilt experiments, with the German DLR, ESA and NASA; pioneering research between Nestlé and Chinese Universities before Nestlé opening its R&D centers in Shanghai and Beijing and developing a food basket program with the International Federation of the Red Cross.
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